A truly UNIQUE event, showcasing ‘the Globe’ aerial display, acrobatics and dance.
Cirque Nova are the only UK circus company specialising in training people with disabilities in the art of circus skills.
Project Information
This project is the result of 2 years preparation by Cirque Nova Ltd and 9 months of training by 12 volunteers with disabilities, 3 ex-Centrepoint service users and their teachers working with professional circus artists and dancers.
Cirque Nova Ltd. advocates that circus schools can provide quality shows and give people who don't tick the ‘norm’ boxes of employment a chance to view employment opportunities from a different perspective. Through this show the company hopes to offer participants the opportunity to work as free-lance artists for Cirque Nova Ltd at festivals and arts events in the UK and abroad.
Cirque Nova Ltd are hoping that LOCOG will make use of these young people's skills in the 2012 opening and closing ceremonies. Cirque Nova Ltd wants to secure them the possibility of utilizing their skills in a professional capacity with Cirque Nova Ltd and other organizations for workshop sessions and performances.
Cirque Nova is planning to start its new project "Astral" At the Pastures Youth Centre over 2010 and train 20 disadvantaged & disabled youths, and continue doing so yearly till 2012. The company have are now recruiting volunteers.
INFO
WHEN Saturday September 19th 2009
WHERE Pastures Youth Centre
Davis Lane
Leytonstone
Waltham Forest E11 3DR
Rail: Leytonstone High Road Station on overground (Turn left out of station , 2nd turn right after the bridge )
Tube: Leytonstone, Central Line
Limited Parking
Time 2.30pm - FREE ENTRY
Enq’s Cirquenova@googlemail.com
0208 800 4745.